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US Customs ACE reporting as web data source?
- 1 year ago
Hi Diana2022 ,
Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft fabric community.
Based on our expertise and Microsoft’s documentation, the US Customs ACE reporting site does not currently offer native support for direct web queries like APIs or OData feeds. However, you can efficiently work around this by downloading reports to a local or cloud folder—such as OneDrive or SharePoint—and then connecting Power BI to that location using Power Query. This approach enables reliable auto-refresh when hosted in the cloud.If you discover that the ACE system offers APIs (even though they aren’t publicly documented), you can leverage Power Query’s Web connector. Should you identify such an endpoint, I’m ready to help you set it up for seamless integration.
Here are some useful links:
Import data from a folder with multiple files
Regards,
Sreeteja.
Ok, thank you. My root question really was whether anyone has successfully used ACE reporting as a web data source or the website just doesn't allow that. I've never used a website as a data source before, have read MS documentation on it, but it can be helpful to know if someone has successfully done it before.
What's their URL? Do they provide API documentation?